Jan 23, 2021
Artist Patrick Ching (top left) will share his passion for art and nature as the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuaryâs 2021-22 artist in residence.
Photo courtesy Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
NOAA’s Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary recently named marine artist Patrick Ching as its 2021-22 artist in residence.
The sanctuary recognizes professional artists who work with the sanctuary to help further their mission of protection for humpback whales in Hawaiian waters. Previous artists who have donated their time, energy and artistic expertise to help promote the sanctuary and its work include contemporary artist Robert Lyn Nelson.
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The collective stand ‘German Stories’ is a regular feature at the Taipei International Book Exhibition, as is Frankfurter Buchmesse’s professional program in publishing. Image: Porter Anderson
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So successful had Taiwan been in handling the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic that just a week ago, Ralph Jennings was writing at Forbes of how the health minister, Chen Shih-chung, was talking about the possibility of a limited reopening of its borders. This island of just under 24 million had carefully controlled outside access, closing to flights from China and then other parts of world early on in the contagion’s spread in the spring of 2020.
With his political stock on the rise after signaling interest in a run for U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is spotlighting the alleged voter fraud case in Forty Fort to raise money for his campaign.
Fetterman is selling T-shirts that say âMy dude in Forty Fort,â a reference to a Republican man from Forty Fort arrested in October on allegations he tried to obtain an absentee ballot for his deceased mother.
The Democratic politician used that phrase in a Twitter message to his Republican counterpart in Texas, a loyalist to President Donald Trump who offered up to $1 million in rewards to those who pointed out voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Sununu set to nominate MacDonald to serve as chief justice
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Gov. Chris Sununu will nominate Attorney General Gordon MacDonald to serve as the chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, a year and a half after first nominating him, and after a year of keeping the position vacant when Democrats voted him down in 2019.
“Gordon has served this state with distinction as attorney general for the last four years, and I am honored to nominate him to lead our state’s highest court,” Sununu said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
Sununu cited MacDonald’s work as attorney general in filing lawsuits on behalf of the state to combat companies responsible for PFAS contamination, and the Department of Justice’s recent action brought against Massachusetts over the Bay State’s collection of income tax for New Hampshire workers who have stopped commuting south during the pandemic. Those actions, Sununu said, would put MacDonald
Each has plenty of fans.
Rosemarie Rung, the only Merrimack Democrat who held onto her seat in November, is backing Murphy. Some House liberals, including Rep.
Sherry Frost, D-Dover, have said they are with Thomas.
This might not be an accurate assessment, but some view the primary as a stalking horse for the potential faceoff for state party chairman between longtime incumbent
Raymond Buckley of Manchester and
Emmett Soldati of Somersworth.
Some see Murphy as the more establishment figure in the Buckley mold and Thomas as a more progressive alternative like Soldati.
Whatâs more certain is that in either case, the primary winner will have her hands full.